Re: "Having all the money."
What the Colts had was the privilege of playing in the NFL, not the AFL. The NFL was the media's darling, and the AFL was considered semi-pro or less. As usual, Ms. Palin sort-of made sense, kinda, but lacked, shall we say, the specifics. I wonder how many '69 Colts or Jets she could actually name.
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JR,
Yeah, I get that she was talking about the established league team as opposed to the upstart. I'm not making a big deal about the slightly off-kilter reference to the Colts being somehow more monied.
-- Bill O.

I'm shocked, simply shocked that a politician would play fast and loose with the facts to forward his/her own agenda.
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Rusty,
Me too.
-- Bill O.

Is Sarah Palin traveling to Earl Morall's hometown to give the metaphor of McCain's campaign blowing the presidential race like Earl Morall blowing that flee-flicker to Jimmy Orr?

So you guys want to get on Palin for being "fast and loose" with the facts. But how old was she at the time of that Super Bowl -- 3 or 4? Here's a women who quotes some football...

Meanwhile you losers are all set to elect a President who wants to take away your money and give it to those who don't want to work for a living.

Speaking of Sarah Palin and football, she had an interesting encounter recently with Terry Tate, Office Linebacker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07kO9TtHYzQ
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Tom,
That's quite a turn on the old Reebok commercials.
-- Bill O.

So she is trying to irritate Baltimore voters now? Politics and football do not mix.
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Susan,
To be fair, Palin wasn't trying to do that and I'm not trying to imply that she was. But you see how these sports references can go.
-- Bill O.

In addition to being rich, elitists the Baltimore Colts also hated America. I can't believe she forgot to mention that.

Not surprising that Sarah Palin can relate to Joe Namath -- they both bought a lot of nice clothes in New York!

Regardless to what she was trying to do - she needs to be on some comedy show and far away from the White House!

Maybe Sarah and Joe can trade tips on pantyhose.
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Lizzie,
You have a good memory, the Namath commercial I mean.
-- Bill O.

Nice to know that Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has the public speaking skills of a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl.
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Attila,
Yow, we have enough sparring around here with Steelers-Ravens fans.
-- Bill O.

Here's video for anybody who cares: http://www.mofopolitics.com/2008/10/23/broadway-sarah-palin-guarantees-p-victory/
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John,
Thanks for the link.
-- Bill O.

McCain is going to lose Maryland anyway, who cares if it (angers) old Baltimore Colts fans. But she is right though. NFL teams were way better financed than AFL teams.

Joe Franklin, one of the AFL teams was the Kansas City Chiefs, who were owned by Lamar Hunt, who in 1969 was one of the richest men in the world. In fact all of the AFL owners were rich or their league would not have lasted as long as it did.

I wonder if she would have rooted for both the Colts and the Jets like Barack would?

I like the idea of an attractive VP in the White House who can talk football with the Joe Plumbers of the world. I don't care what team she roots for. Go Sarah.

I like the idea of an attractive VP in the White House who can talk football with the Joe Plumbers of the world. I don't care what team she roots for. Go Sarah.

McCain and Palin. Dumb and Dumber.

Who cares if McCain loses? YOU had better care! We are all losers if McCain loses!

Seriously,

Who is Sarah Palin again? That's right she's that idiot of a hockey mom masking to be a legitimate grown up. Come on let's face it. She has no business trying to run this country when her family is a disaster and she is an incredibly uneducated individual.

For all the 24 hour talk, for all the sound bites and slogans, none of it means anything if not for honest, genuine elections. We are seeing the very skeleton of our democracy shattered before us. We are seeing vote rigging in many precincts, we are hearing accounts of voter intimidation. How can the public good ignore such a fundamental threat to our very civilization? This isn't about who wins or loses, this is about maintaining the core value of our tradition, the tradition of democracy and honest elections which has given this country purpose and meaning since it's inception. We are a country of great compromises and we are a country of public discourse and duty. Without honest elections none of this matters, none of this at all means anything. How, after two election cycles, with Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, Ohio, where thousands upon thousands left their homes to stand in the cold, waiting like good citizens to express their voices through their fundamental right to vote, how could such democracy by stifled time and again to the ignorance of the public? How could they not see the value is not in who wins or loses but the rules of the game itself that must be upheld. That every citizen of this nation let them cast their vote.
I can not believe, I can not believe that with so much talk so little of it addresses this issue, the issue of the election itself, the issue that in our 21st century society we still can't do something as simple as count slips of paper. And that in the 21st century cheaters, and manipulators, and other such shameful acts are not received with such an outcry of shame and horror, that anyone would dare to taint and terrorize the very fabric of our democratic society.
In these next ten days let us all pray, and pray fast, for the honest counting of votes, let us all pray, no matter what your prejudice or party, no matter what your age or color, for an honest count, for an honest representation of the public will. And that those who might hold evil in their hearts, toward this process, that they may be released to the just and loving arms of the Lord. For these matters I pray deeply and steadfast.
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Jason,
Thanks for writing but as important as your message might be, it's a little off-point for the Super Bowl III thing. But I appreciate your civic passion.
-- Bill O.

Did Ms. Pallin have too much to drink, too?